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As you can see from my site (right columns) I am an avid fairtax supporter. This week I read an interesting presentation of the effective fairtax rate, which I thought was compelling and would be supported by most Americans. I wanted to share this because you won't hear the media or nagging fairtax bloggers sharing the fairtax from this angle.

A client recently requested ffmpeg to be installed on the server. I have done this in the past on a client's box but he had a different OS setup. For that installation I used a HowTo guide from VexxHost.

The Lafayette Tea Party turnout was pretty good considering the size of our cities. Unfortunately I couldn't come early enough to see the pouring of the tea into the Wabash River. Below are some highlights.

I am glad there is a Tax Day Tea Party in Lafayette tomorrow (12 - 2pm & 6 - 8pm). The party will take place at the pedestrian bridge, adjacent to the Main Street bridge that join West Lafayette and Lafayette.

Over the last few months I have been working on putting a server together, to host my and clients sites. Cutting monthly hosting costs and hardware additions (memory) was another reason for me to buy and manage my own server.

Like most geeks we all had or have a Rubik's Cube. I never played with one growing up but over the years it seems my mind needs these kind of problems to solve. A few weeks back I got the cube out to show my three year old, just to see how she would respond. She loves puzzles and will definitely be a logic person. She can solve a 50 piece puzzle, that amazes me.

I run LiteSpeed on my server and just love the performance it provides. During a recent Apache update the server decided not to restart on its own. After I discovered it I went in to WHM to restart Apache, forgetting that LiteSpeed doesn't restart on its own. Once done, I guess Apache changed some dir/files to "nobody" ownership. Suddenly some sites would not work.

Fortunately a server knowledgeable friend was online and helped spot the problem and a quick fix. To change all the files and directories to the correct ownership you need to login as root and run the following:

chown -R chown:chgrp /home/AccountName

Happy account name chown'ing!

Well it seems my candidate has a losing battle ahead of him. Last report I heard McCain needs 57 delegates to clinch the nomination. I saw McCain's interview last night on Larry King Live, a more friendlier McCain was on my TV compared to previously. That still doesn't change my stance on him being a war monger, nor how I feel about his understanding of our economy.

I figured Romney would pass his delegates on to McCain, simply for the chance of being the running mate and to show the republican party he has no interest in dividing the party. I feel this move though was really for his interest in 2012. Only time will tell.

I wanted to share an observation I have made. Rasmussen Reports' (a leading polling site) home page has not had Huckabee's name on it for over a two weeks. Prior to Romney dropping, Rasmussen Reports had Romney's and McCain's name (as well as Obama and Clinton) listed in content on several occasions. Big deal? I think so, here is why.

First, I want to congratulate Huckabee for winning Kansas and Louisiana yesterday. Apparently we are still waiting to get results from the state of Washington; it looks like a close race between McCain and Huckabee.

I was really disappointed the first couple days after Romney announced his decision to end his campaign; the media began announcing that McCain would be the nominee for the Republicans. There were other things mentioned as well like Huckabee has no chance, he's gone a dropout soon, and just a few days McCain will take the nominee etc. When did reporters begin making predictions and when did it become okay for them to misguide voters? The job of the news media is just to tell the facts not to assume or predict.

Changing subject...

I saw this and just had to share it. Huck camp, send out some more!

I have received a few emails from a folks sharing their
views on topics. I guess it is time to introduce some new features on this site
that will allow commenting and social sharing of content.

Now when you visit a post you will be able to comment and reply to comments.
This is a pretty common feature on most high traffic sites. It is a great way
to include others in on my thoughts. One extra feature, when commenting you
will be notified if someone else replied to your comment or added another
comment. That is why your email will be asked.